Rio Wrenn. Murder at Leadbetter and A Lump In Her Throat. 2007. detail.
What’s the lineup for the Mercury’s Spring Fashion Show look like? A few surprises, a few unknowns, a few repeat customers, and a couple of designers who have been in the trenches for some time now. As in years past there is an […]
Merc Lineup
Incoming: N Mississippi’s Flourish 2
N. Mississippi’s Flourish fashion show is coming up in April
Ties + Skirts: Young-hee Shin
ties and skirts for men and women…Young-hee Shin
Incoming: DT5
Doom Town returns February 29 for year five of the rock n’ roll fashion show
Field Notes: FutureFashion At NY Fashion Week
Part of the Earth Pledge’s overall mission is to connect designers with green textile resources, and the annual FutureFashion runway show is used as their public centerpiece. This year they invited 28 of the most respected designers in the industry (Marni, Burberry, and Yves Saint Laurent to list a few) to create a one-of-a-kind ensemble using sustainable fabrics and organic fibers exclusively.
Call for Designers: STRUT and Mercury Shows
There are not one but two calls for juried fashion shows in Portland at the moment. Both have March 1 deadlines. Fashion designers, start your engines.
My Own Private Portland (via Paris through a Japanese lens)
is that an Ace Hotel blanket on your chair at “My Own Private Portland,” Takahiro Miyashita’s most recent Paris runway show for his label Number (N)ine?
The Art of Fashion: Action/Re-Action Fashion Show
each designer was invited to choose an object from the Museum’s current exhibition, Touching Warms the Art, and create a garment in response to it. We suggested they might “interpret ‘inspired by’ as loosely as you like.” And the designers responded to shape, texture, repetition, and free-associative suggestion of narrative.
